School Quotes · Page 8

I had good time in high school, but I don't think I learned a lot.

— Jim Peebles

What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance…

— Joseph Campbell

I am a bit old-school.

— Jay Kay

I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was…

— Viola Davis

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

— Debra Wilson

When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.

— Jo Brand

My pictures of 'Oliver Twist' and 'A Boy in Flanders' are being used as school lessons.

— Jackie Coogan

Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail…

— Bill Gates

It's not about changing--it's about growing, together," he said, like the wise soul that he was. "I wanted to let you know--that…

— Ellen Schreiber

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that…

— Plato

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my…

— Sam Claflin

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that…

— Dayo Okeniyi

I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Nobody at school would have expected me to be involved in anything that might have been perceived as cool. I was trying…

— Richard Herring

[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends…

— Anonymous

The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on…

— Kaitlin Olson

Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm not sure Betsy DeVos has ever spent a day in a public school. And I don't - I'm pretty sure Donald…

— Mark Shields

Now is the time to take stock of a painful part of our history. Only then can we move past it. Anything…

— Perry Bellegarde

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to…

— Carl Crawford

As I matured, I've always had the dream of one day either having my own clothing line or owning a fashion magazine.…

— Ashley Purdy

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot…

— Alan Alda

I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in…

— Matt Letscher

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

— David Dinkins

I would ask my mum to feed my dolls and make sure they were tucked in when I went to school.

— Gayle Rankin